Fandoms are Cool

Original stuff is under "#my post," but mostly I just reblog to my massive queue. One or two obsessions at a time, usually. I like fan culture in general, so you'll see weird one-off essays or gif sets for things I don't care about. I'm an adult and blog accordingly.

[the-pursuit-of-sappiness]

horse girl jean vicquemare & circa 2008 taylor swift. if you play him cruel summer he throws up

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so the synopsis of The Ring is: you will die 7 days after watching this videotape. my question is does that apply to rewatching the tape. let's say I watch the tape, wait 6 days, and watch it again. does the timer reset to 7 days? can I do this indefinitely? can I become functionally immortal by watching the evil videotape on a weekly basis?

[shy-magpie]

I require the film where someone decides this means they are functionally immortal for 6 days after watching the tape so seeks it out before going on a series of utterly batshit suicide missions. The tape keeps trying to do creepy crap around them and they're just like "I have 3 days 12 hours left to do this prison break so you're not even on my top 10 concerns, either distract this guard for me or go do something about that hair while you're waiting"

The ghost is so baffled and has no idea how to explain that's not how any of this works that it does save them a couple times while trying to get this across, thus convincing them the theory has been validated

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

characters whose sexuality is "i'm under way too much stress to figure that shit out rn"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

character whose gender is "im probably nonbinary but im on a quest so idrc about that rn"

[lostbetweenthenotes]

“Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: ‘It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it.’ And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it mean to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?”

— “59. it’s beautiful, but I don’t like it” from 100 essays I don’t have time to write: on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater, sarah ruhl  (via likeniobe)

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

[punk-squirrely-ghost]

Explain.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

try and tell me literally any one of these would not fit above a short story about two wholly random men from the MCU fingering each other, or possibly 12 chapters of one or more characters from a CW show being in high school while having a photogenic but terminal kind of cancer. try.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

ok so i want to say in hindsight i think i could probably have been clearer

[rimonoroni2]

[thyla]

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES 2.15 ‣ The Trouble with Tribbles

[elenamanetta]

Insects may as well be the size of elephants for the way I react to them.

[nickyvmlp]

You’ve captured the essence of the show marvelously, OP

[stemmmm]

i love bills shitty flip phone

[miscellaneousmao]

Pidove black sesame cookies in the city 🩶🏙️

Made these silly birds to give out and represent NYC during last week's Pokémon GO Fest Global.

[girlnextvore]

When you see a Prep in hottopic

[girlnextvore]

“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”

[girlnextvore]

why are people reblogging this again

this post is like 11 years old

WHY AREYALL DOING THIS

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be

[girlnextvore]

hey

fuck you LOL

[dominiqueramseyart]

VAPOREON II

[guttsbunny]

He is watching

[jellyskink]

I don't think he can blink without losing that pose. Something about tendons

[buniix3]

i still have hope he'll win look at that crowd

[softersynths]

more shifty and mcgucket doodles

[couldtheycatchkira]

Could Frodo Baggins solve the Kira murders?

Could catch Kira, would survive

Could not catch Kira, would survive

Could catch Kira, would not survive

Could not catch Kira, would not survive

Voting ended on10h

[pomrania]

This may be controversial, but I'm going to say that no, he couldn't solve it and wouldn't survive. The strengths which served him so well in his original story, are mostly irrelevant for going up against Kira. Which doesn't say anything BAD about him, just like camels aren't failures for not being polar apex predators; it's simply a different niche, that he doesn't fill.

If he hasn't yet come into possession of the Ring, then he's basically an ordinary hobbit, without any especial investigative or deceptive skills. His best hope is to not be seen as a threat, but I think he's in the unfortunate range where he's smart enough to be considered "potentially dangerous" but not smart enough to have a reasonable chance of finding Kira.

WITH the Ring in his possession, I'd say he's actually in even MORE danger, because the Ring is actively trying to get him killed so it can pass to someone more easily swayed. (I'm willing to argue that the Ring COULD make someone immune to the Note if it so wished; but it very much does not wish that here.) He might be able to vaguely sense Ryuk's presence, and he could certainly SEE Ryuk while wearing the Ring, but that just makes him more of a threat.

AFTER the whole Ring Shenanigans... the boy has Seen Some Shit, so I can picture him intuiting how the Note works, but he's also suffering a depression debuff, and still hasn't developed investigative skills.

...Actually. There are TWO different options for him surviving, I just realized. One is if he avoids being considered a threat, which I'd give overall a bit worse than even odds. The other is if hobbits somehow slipped through the cracks when the Death Notes were being made, and thus can't actually be targeted by that. I don't think this is necessarily LIKELY, but it WOULD be incredibly thematic for Lord of the Rings, "insignificant creatures we don't need to account for, oh shit what's that they're doing now".

[navigatorsghost]

Okay but are we gonna talk about the catastrophic consequences of Light Yagami getting his hands on the fucking One Ring To Rule Them All?

[notahorseindisguise]

IM GONNA FUCKING CRY

[notahorseindisguise]

WHO THE FUCK IS OSCAR

[artsymeeshee]

Finally finished the comic! Wasn’t expecting for it to take this long but it’s here regardless.

I know this probably isn’t what some were expecting, with me involving McGucket, but it was an idea that struck me a year or so ago and I kind of latched onto it (don’t know why it took so long to actually draw it out but). There will be a second part to follow this, I just need to write everything out. I’ll also explain my reasoning for these two to interact specifically in the second part since it ties into it. First time writing dialogue for both of them so hopefully it isn’t too out-of-character for either TwT

A tidbit for those who may not know, but Alex has said that Pacifica works at Greasy’s Diner after the events of the show (hence why she’s in a dress similar to Lazy Susan’s). Also first time drawing old man McGucket! He’s such a delight to draw, I don’t know why it took me so long to finally draw him 😭 I’ve done a great disservice 😔